Not to be a downer, but very tough hunt these days for a mature buck. The unit has taken a nose dive and only getting worse. Lots of guys that know the unit well, are all saying the same thing(couple recent threads on MM). If you have an account over there, I’d PM a few of those guys that are...
The good ones are when the newbies pull up an ancient post about unit X, and ask how the hunt went. Not realizing the original poster has 1 post and hasn’t even been on HT since making the thread 37 years ago
Like I mentioned before on the turning a tag back in issue. Colorado should follow Wyoming’s rules when it comes to turning a tag back in. Wyoming is like the honey badger when it comes to that. They don’t give a &$&@ about your reasoning, unless its medical or emergency
Also, again, guys...
There was a big fire in the unit that year. I would have turned my tag back in also, and hunted another year.
Maybe anyone who pulls an “A” tag off the reissue list should lose their points! That would help with point creep.
I like it too. I really liked the random tue-fri a lot better though.
I’ve picked up tags these past 6 years and just keep building points. Maybe I’ll burn the points next year, maybe I’ll gain another point and play the reissue game again.
Those 20+ point elk tags were a surprise to see. A couple years ago when the fire was in that unit, there was like 15 or more that popped up one day for the same unit.
As far as the returned tag process goes. I think they’ve made it to easy to turn them back in. They should be like Wyoming and...